Yesterday, I decided to make a few more fabric collages for cards. Using my green backgrounds I started with the two flowers - approximate triangles for petals, centers and stems and leaves. I hand cut the little owl, his belly, the eyes in yellow and black and a tiny yellow beak. Added a branch in brown for his to sit on. The rose is five layers of reds. I started with the smallest one, and laid it on the next colour fabric and trimmed around it and continued to the last red layer. I trimmed to green leaves. I pinned the leaves and sewed them in place first and then laid my layered circles over it and started in the center and kept going around until I stitched the outside layer down on the outside edge. For the leaf I stitched several pieces together to use as a substrate for my leaf, cut it out and added more small pieces into the collage and then stitched them all down using yellow thread and finally went all the way around to highlight the edge. I used a dark thread to stitch the leaf to my green fabric collage. Really happy with all of these and will be making up the cards a bit later. Therese
